Showcase: Marianne Bjørnmyr

The diary was found to belong to the soldier, Leenert Hasenbosch, who one year earlier was left as a prisoner on the island as a punishment for sodomy. The diary…

New Writing: BPB14 Looking for Answers

…couple pics. Or any pics at all, unless they’re untagged, which is a form of mystery too. Withholding information can occur through choices made at capture time, using shadow, light,…

Showcase: Alexandra Uhart

desert in the world, where living conditions are averse. Within more than five hundred mining sites, a cemetery of plastic bottles and a pile of old tires are mere examples…

Interview: Gilane Tawadros

…on the crowds mourning Robert Kennedy, and Richard Misrach’s desert scenes. A couple of features stand out in that selection: the first is that (with the exception of Warhol, arguably,…

Adam Curtis: Dystopian Dialectics

…an ideal place, but its genesis reveals a more complicated story. In 1516 Thomas More published Utopia, a story about a newly discovered island society. Utopia was a place where…

Interview: Monica Alcazar-Duarte

island of that name which was turned from a barren rock into a lush verdant oasis through environmental manipulation. Contemporary space scientists cite Ascension island as an example of terraforming…

Ideas on Talent: Frances F. Denny

…Rhode Island Historical Society exhibition of colonial girls’ embroidery samplers. Historically, “virtue” relates to a woman’s chastity and moral uprightness, and I began thinking about how the definition of women’s…

Showcase: Giovanna Petrocchi

With this body of work I intend to document my experience and visionary interpretation of the island of Lanzarote and its unique landscape. In Lanzarote, I create a visual world…

Showcase: Rebecca Soliman

…ancient high culture. A stronghold for tourism. An embodiment of the 2011 Arab Revolution. But there is another Egypt. The Sinai. 61,100 km2 in area. A vast desert peninsula. An…

Instagram Takeover: Anouk Kruithof

…a residency for other creative thinkers.   View this post on Instagram   From #deepsee to #desert… my book called #automagic is #transformed to a space #booktospace #show right now…

Felicity Hammond

…stands between the interior and an outside world, a similar daunting construction site in a desert-like landscape. We are witnessing two worlds on the brink of collapse while they are…

Massimiliano Corteselli

…known for its fertility into a desert. Many of the wildfires in this region are actually manmade disasters, he adds, set as vengeance, or to access government funding, or even…

From My Skull

…attitude in serious science, too. Maria Reiche had researched the Nazca lines in Peru for ages. She decided to publish The Mystery of the Desert – which turned out to…

Heads in a Box

…Channel. All presumably intended to suggest an I-was-there authenticity: one of the assassins, for example, was wearing ‘a shirt and trousers in Desert Digital Camouflage, and carried a silenced Sig…

A New Europe – Opening Conversations

…explores Britain’s geography as an island, the ongoing refugee crisis and photography’s role in the construction of national identity. 1.00 – 1.15 Introduction: A New Europe, Shoair Mavlian 1.15 –…

Showcase: Matthew Broadhead

…upholding an illusion of it being a complete entity reveals this as an ongoing enquiry that will never reach its zenith. Each story in myth is an island in a…

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